All articles by Graham Dunn – Page 87
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New Glasgow base sets up Ryanair UK domestic return
Irish carrier Ryanair will return to UK domestic services after a three-year break this winter after establishing a new base at Glasgow International airport.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Sizing up Lufthansa's challenges
If the challenge facing new Lufthansa group chief executive Carsten Spohr was not clear before, it is now after the airline’s recent downgrading of its earnings outlook on news that its flagship Score efficiency programme will not reach target.
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IATA: Industry profit outlook trimmed to $18bn
IATA has trimmed its collective industry profits forecast to $18 billion for this year, though this still marks a big improvement on the profitability in 2013.
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China Eastern signs partnership deal with TravelSky
China Eastern Airlines has signed a memorandum of understanding with local GDS supplier TravelSky Technologies on a new generation passenger service system (PSS).
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AnalysisANALYSIS: The biggest LCCs by traffic, revenue and profit
Traffic and profitability among the fast-developing low-fares sector continued to grow apace in 2013, as the latest annual Airline Business/Flightglobal low-cost carrier survey shows passengers for the 75 biggest players topping 800 million and profits among leading operators jumping 50%.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: How Europe’s LCCs are getting down to business
The lines between low-cost carriers and their network rivals have blurred so much over recent years as to make segmenting operators by type almost academic.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Ryanair slips but still the biggest European LCC
As European low-cost carriers continue to expand increasingly outside their home markets, it is perhaps inevitable that there will be more direct competition between rivals from the sector.
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NewsRyanair full-year profits slip 8% to €523 million
Full year net profits slipped 8% at European low-cost carrier Ryanair to €523 million ($716 million) for the 12 months to March 2014 as weaker fares ate into its profitability.
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NewsAir Berlin set for recapitalisation after falling to 2013 loss
Gulf carrier Etihad Airways is to subscribe to a €300 million convertible bond in Air Berlin as part of a €450 million recapitalisation plan after the struggling German carrier disclosed a full-year operating loss of €231.9 million for 2013.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Airline start-ups and failures Q1 2014
Airline start-ups outweighed collapses during the first quarter of 2014, continuing the trend that developed last year as the economic climate brightened.
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Air Cairo to open German links to Hurghada
EgyptAir budget unit Air Cairo is to begin flights linking the Red Sea resort of Hurghada with the German cities of Dusseldorf, Hannover and Stuttgart next month.
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NewsPICTURES: United unveils new Heathrow T2 lounges
United Airlines has today previewed its new premium-class lounges at London Heathrow's soon-to-be-inaugurated Terminal 2, a move which will bring the Star Alliance carrier's flights under a single terminal for the first time since its merger with Continental Airlines.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: LCCs make the running in Italian market
Few markets in Europe have been as fragmented and have seen non-home-market carriers make such inroads as Italy has.
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ROUTES: Signs point to European growth chance
Airline and airport network managers come together in Marseille for Routes Europe at a time of renewed optimism for the financial health of the continent's air transport sector.
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ANALYSIS: Can airlines take share and profits?
One of the most striking things about IATA’s robust industry profit outlooks over the last couple of years has been the way the extra capacity that airlines have added has been soaked up without derailing profitability.
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Emirates to launch Oslo flights
Oslo will become Emirates’ third Scandinavian destination in September when the UAE carrier launches daily flights to the Norwegian capital from Dubai.
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SITA to set up industry registry for beacon technology
Air transport specialist SITA it is to set up a industry registry to help facilitate the use beacon technology after its technology research team SITA Lab issued the findings of early trials at airports.
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Interpol confirms stolen passports used on MH370 flight
International crime investigation body Interpol has confirmed that one Austrian and one Italian passport used by passengers boarding the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were on its record of stolen travel documents.
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NewsAir freight traffic lift gives airlines bright start to 2014
Global air freight grew 4.5% in January over the same month in 2013, a marked improvement on the sluggish growth that has plagued the air cargo market over the last couple of years.